1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more. Compare verse2 commentaries
6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. Compare verse3 commentaries
8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given to us his holy Spirit. Compare verse3 commentaries
9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another. Compare verse4 commentaries
10 And indeed you do it toward all the brothers which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brothers, that you increase more and more; Compare verse1 commentary
11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; Compare verse3 commentaries
12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing. Compare verse2 commentaries
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. Compare verse19 commentaries
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Compare verse8 commentaries
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. Compare verse6 commentaries
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Compare verse15 commentaries
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Compare verse12 commentaries